Apple Takes Top Ranking in Secure Password Management

[Musikman]

The study revealed that 55 percent of online retailers accepted weak passwords like "password" or "123456" and 51 percent made no attempt to block entry after 10 incorrect password entries. 61 percent did not provide advice on how to create a strong password, and 93 percent did not provide an on-screen password strength assessement. 

 

The roundup assesses the password policies of the top 100 e-commerce sites in the US by examining 24 different password criteria that Dashlane has identified as important to online security, and awarding or docking points depending upon whether a site meets a criterion or not. Each criterion is given a +/- point value, leading to a possible total score between –100 and 100 for each site.

 

Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/01/24/apple-password-management-score/

 

Our good friends over at Apple and Newegg take the top spots while MLB.com and Karmaloop take the lowest rakings. 

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[Guest Philosophy]

Interesting article! I recently changed all passwords to pass-phrases (On sites I could).